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GitHub Copilot is an artifical intelligence (AI) pair programmer that helps users write code, using the context from comments and code to instantly suggest individual lines and whole functions. GitHub Copilot is powered by a generative AI model developed by GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft, trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub. GitHub Copilot is available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and the JetBrains suite of integrated development environments (IDEs).
Users can receive suggestions from GitHub Copilot either by starting to write code or by writing a natural language comment describing what the code should do. GitHub Copilot analyzes the context and offers suggestions from within your text editor. For each language, the quality of suggestions received depends on the volume and diversity of training data for that language. For example, well-represented languages in public repositories (e.g., Javascript) are GitHub Copilot's best-supported languages. Languages with less representation in public repositories may produce fewer or less robust suggestions.
GitHub Copilot was launched in June 2021, as a technical preview. Following the launch of the technical preview, GitHub began listening to users and accumulating feedback. The company also started expanding the number of people with access and the places where GitHub Copilot was available. On March 29, 2022, GitHub expanded access to Visual Studio 2022.
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot became generally available to all developers on June 21, 2022. The technical preview included more than 1.2 million developers. GitHub CoPilot launched at a price of $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. However, the product was made free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open-source projects. GitHub Copilot for Business was released on February 14, 2023, introducing a more advanced OpenAI model and new enterprise capabilities. GitHub Copilot for Business is priced at $19 per month per user. It offers all the functionality of Copilot, plus the following:
- Simple license management
- Organization-wide policy management
- Additional privacy features
- Corporate proxy support
- Copilot Chat beta
